“Why haven’t the public comments to the Vance Monument commission been published on a website so we can have an informed discussion?”
Letter: A village, not a mall, on Charlotte Street
“The gargantuan design is pretentious in the cottage area. Increased traffic, dangerously absurd. Total disregard for historic treasures, even worse.”
Open and shut
Take out the trash
Letter: NC should still adopt the ERA
“North Carolina is poised to be on the wrong side of history unless our legislature acts quickly. We are one of the handful of states that has not yet ratified the federal ERA.”
Letter: The Bluffs: playing with fire
“Allowing The Bluffs to proceed without ensuring our public safety is playing with fire.”
Letter: A few puzzling questions
“If the rural children can’t do their classwork because of lack of internet access, then how are the parents going to get the information they need?”
Letter: Asheville Primary School is worth fighting for
“Concerned residents should contact the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners and demand a signed memorandum of understanding with ACS that preserves all ACS buildings and pre-K classrooms before future funding is approved.”
Letter: What happened, Asheville?
“We’ve already lost the goose and the golden egg. Now the City Council is selling what’s left to the highest bidders.”
Mount Holdsworth
Letter: A vote for creative police funding
“Creative police funding should be used to bring down the temperature between police and citizens.”
Letter: City schools could learn from Stephens-Lee’s model
“Asheville City Schools owes a debt to the African American community. This debt must be paid forward; Stephens-Lee faculty offer a model.”
Natural solutions
Letter: Ask commissioners to support conservation effort
“There has never been what seemed like such a crucial time for understanding how we can continue to feed, clothe and sustain ourselves without crushing the natural world to death.”
Letter: No tax relief in sight
“Brownie Newman says that if we give tax relief to businesses that have suffered from the pandemic, we would have to raise taxes on everyone else in order to maintain county services.”
Letter: Boost funding to educate, train police
“In fact, funding for our people in blue should be increased to better educate them on conflict resolution and sensitivity training.”
Step up now to save Buncombe County’s farmland
“Faced with significant development pressures, we must do what we can to protect some of the region’s natural habitat and biodiversity, as well as our most productive farmland.”
Letter: Don’t overlook construction trades
“But I think many in our community are overlooking a segment of our economy that can provide a very good and stable income for someone who may not be college material or is unwilling to be saddled with $50,000-plus student debt to obtain a degree.”
In one ear…
Letter: Development proposal is all wrong for Charlotte Street
“It will completely change the character of the neighborhood I have lived in for over 37 years, increase traffic problems and move large, impersonal commercial spaces further into residential neighborhoods.”
Letter: Plan, then vote to send students back
“There is no excuse that these educational professionals [did] not have a concrete and specific plan set in place before voting to send students back.”